Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
BLOODY TALES.
II eek Thomas Reaches Fert Smith with
aHumber Of Murderer, White
Black and Red.
History of Soma of the Crimes-How TIE
Brog Capture was Made-A WHY
Indian Savage.
Special tn the Gazette.

Special tn the Gazette.
J F0KT SMITH. ARK Jan. 26.-Depsty
United States Marshal H. Thomas, one
of TIE most efficient officers III the West
ern District of Arkansas, arrived here to-
day from TIE Indian Territory with twelve
prisoners, cs follows: W. Patterson,
Ds.la HsEoby, Burt ODenwood, John
Braner and Silas hampton, charged with
murder; Thomas Alexander and John
Guna, assault with intent 10 kill; John
Kemp and Hero BrUao. larceny; Albert
Rogers, \. Blue and Thomas Lawrence,
introducing end selling whisky in the
| Indian Territory. Those charged with
murder are among the worst cases eyer
brought here. W. Paterson murdered
Deputy Unite& States Marshal Willard
Ayers in August, 1881, near Cherokee
been fugitive from Justice,
battling al attempts 70 capture hia
notwithstanding u large reward was
offered for his apprehension by Enited
STATES Marshal Y. Dell and G. c. Ayres,
brother of the murdered man However,
ne surrendered to Thomas, saying he was
which will very likely break his neck.
Avres was most efficient and discreet
officer, and before his death had been for
ten years Deput7 Marshal n this dis
triCt, never having hurt man during
that time, though he had arrested
hundreds. He had 3 writ for Patterson
on larceny charge and went to mis-
house about 10 O'clock in the night to
serve it., lie called Patterson out, so it
Is alleged, and told him what he wanted
Patterson said: Gan right; let me get
my Clothes" aud wish Ayres' percussion
stepped back into the house,
but in an instant reappeared
! in the door with pistol, shot
the officer and ran away. When he de-
! liyered his trusty pistol to the officers
he remarked that it was the first time it
had been ont of his grasp for years. He
was long time : older in the regular
army.
| Della Handy is also 3 negro and has
! earned the reputation of being one of the
worst desperadoes in the Indian country.
| He was sent 81 the penitentiary some years
| agO from this court for assault
with intent 50 kill, serving four years
sentence. While ne was absent mis- wife
married again, AID when he returned
from Detroit he shot and killed her
| Since then he has been on the scout, and
was at Lees ranch in Delaware Bend,
when James Guy, Andy and jim Rolf and
others We're massacred, Humby taking a
! hand in their murder so it is alleged.
Burt O'DenWOod is @ white man and is
charged with the murder of his brother
| in-law, A. l.. Brown, who mysteriously
met his death in December last near his
| home in Delaware Bend. O'Denwood
spent the night with Brown and in the
morning while Mrs. Brown was cooking
| breakfast her husband went out to water
his stock ut creek near by. O'Denwood
soon after took his gun and
went out also, and soon after q
sho: was heard but nothing
was thought OF it by the family. Presently
| O'Denwood came in, and telling Mrs.
Brown he had business at store not far
away, lett hurriedly without mis- breakfast.
Browns body was shortly afterwards
found, and the next day O'Denwood was
arrested as his slayer. He denied all
knowledge of the murder, but the circum-
stances against him are very strong.
Sllas Hampton is full-blooded Choc-
,taw and young in years. He brutally
murdered an old man named L. Lloyd
near Tishomingo on the 9th of December,
roboing his victim of IS in money and
| jack-knife. The old man was hauling hay
and had camped for the night when the
wiley Indian crept up and killed him with
out moments warning.
! John Bruner is Seminole negro and
stands well in his nation. On March 10,
1885, he killed negro desperate NAMED
George Mack, q partner of the notorious
Dick Glass, who met his death at the
hands of the late Sam Sixkiller. 1t
is the general opinion that Bruner, who
is known also as Tecumseh, will be able
to extricate himself, as the man he killed
was an outlaw; but Thomas says he did
not kill him outright and must account
for it.
| Deputy Thomas was out ffty-two days,
and his trip is classed as the best one
made by any officer for many day. His
brag capture was Humby, who on Christ
mas Eve, in company with Thomas Alex
ander, attempted to murder Robin Gray
son near Whitehead Hill, Chickasaw ma
! ton, shooting at him twelve times
Thomas happened to be in the
neighborhood, and getting on the
trail of Humby followed him, capturing
him in the Seminole nation by taking
him unawares, the desperate not know
| ing that THONGS was around until he
was confronted with Winchester rife in
the hands of the vigilant and determined
! officer.